I think the thing about the v7 era was the people.
You had my ID group, the 1000s as the newbs. I've met a lot of 1000s and we're all a bunch of great guys really. (And actually, pretty much the whole group from about 1000-6000 were cool about it too. I mean, we all have noob newbs, but it seems that the higher the IDs go, the more noobish they get.)
Then you had the 3 digits and below guys who are also great guys cause they're the extreme oldcigarettes and they're fun to hang around.
I dunno. I think it was just more of an innocent time. Retail had only been around for a year or so, we had just gotten past the whole Roblox forum raid thing. It was like a Euphoric sense of accomplishment. We knew that Blockland was only going to get better.
Now Blockland is great, but there really isn't much left to improve upon aside from new addons and the like. And rightfully so. Badspot has worked hard to create a pretty kickass game to the point that not much needs to be done for it to already be flawless.